The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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Page 93
... obliged to vindicate the former * part of my antagonist's con- duct against his own present inclinations . I owe myself , in all things , to all the freemen of this city . My particular friends have a demand on me that I should not ...
... obliged to vindicate the former * part of my antagonist's con- duct against his own present inclinations . I owe myself , in all things , to all the freemen of this city . My particular friends have a demand on me that I should not ...
Page 102
... obliged to take more than common pains to instruct myself in ev- erything which relates to our colonies . I was not less under the necessity of forming some fixed ideas concerning the general policy of the British empire . Something of ...
... obliged to take more than common pains to instruct myself in ev- erything which relates to our colonies . I was not less under the necessity of forming some fixed ideas concerning the general policy of the British empire . Something of ...
Page 126
... obliged to truck and huckster . The Sultan gets such obedience as he can . He gov erns with a loose rein , that he may govern at all ; and the whole of the force and vigor of his authority in his centre is derived from a prudent ...
... obliged to truck and huckster . The Sultan gets such obedience as he can . He gov erns with a loose rein , that he may govern at all ; and the whole of the force and vigor of his authority in his centre is derived from a prudent ...
Page 130
... obliged to depreciate the value of freedom itself ; and we never seem to gain a paltry advantage over them in debate , without attacking some of those principles , or deriding some of those feelings , for which our ancestors have shed ...
... obliged to depreciate the value of freedom itself ; and we never seem to gain a paltry advantage over them in debate , without attacking some of those principles , or deriding some of those feelings , for which our ancestors have shed ...
Page 141
... obliged to conform to the temper I found universally prevalent in my own day , and to govern two million of men , impatient of servitude , on the principles of freedom . I am not de- termining a point of law ; I am restoring ...
... obliged to conform to the temper I found universally prevalent in my own day , and to govern two million of men , impatient of servitude , on the principles of freedom . I am not de- termining a point of law ; I am restoring ...
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